Sentences with phrase «freedom of liberal democracy»

Therefore, the people's participation should be more than the individual freedom of liberal democracy.

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And yet, American liberal democracy has nonetheless always made available the tools to nurture those essential moral foundations of freedom.

Leading French Catholics thus began to claim that the Revolution's fundamental commitment to democracy was incompatible with the liberal freedom of religion it had earlier upheld.

Peter learned two things from the dissidents: the notion of «living in the truth»; and the disconcerting thought that Communism and Western liberal democracy had things in common, modern science to begin with, that challenged human freedom and dignity.

An early work in political thought influenced by Whitehead's philosophy that stresses reason, individual freedom, and liberal democracy is Samuel H. Beers The City of Reason (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949).

Rather than insisting that the current form of Western - type liberal democracy is the ultimate form of governance for all societies, we need to envisage other governance models that go one step beyond freedom and incorporate and uphold human dignity needs.

-- which invites answers measuring how well non-western countries fare in relation to a presumed model of western secularism — I start from liberal democratic ideals and assume that they are not ethnocentric: human rights, freedom, equality and democracy are universal aspirations.

In the climate of reinvigorated faith in the virtues of liberal democracy post-1989, freedom and democracy were two common buzzwords that indeed seem to carry a strong promise for the future.

It is also more inclusive than just the insistence on «political freedom» which is central to current forms of liberal democracy and the «end of history thesis ``.

The Conservative Government's plans to curb the powers of the Freedom of Information Act would have a detrimental impact on Welsh democracy and public services, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has said.

Therefore, while democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity were overlapping and shared goals among the spectrum of secular, liberal, and Islamist groups (Alexander, 20120), scant discussion of the content or form of such wide - ranging frames were made available to the spectrum of protestors who participated in the revolts.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

Macedo charges that many critics of public education mistakenly assume that good citizens «spring full - blown from the soil of private freedom,» while others, forgetting the «civic dimensions of political life,» define liberal democracy exclusively in terms of individual liberties.

Projects that can seem self - evidently good to a liberal — such as democracy, peace - making, concern for the environment, the liberation of women, or freedom of speech — can seem evil or even Satanic to a fundamentalist.

This includes pursuing many obviously humanitarian objectives for their own sake as well as promoting our liberal enlightenment goals of free markets, maximum economic growth, democracy, the rule of law and individual freedom.

«Freedom of speech is a central principle to every liberal democracy,» said CSA President Greg Oliver.

«The IPB has rightly been heavily scrutinised, however, it is important to remember that individual freedom and liberty is a key aspect of liberal democracies, and the starting point should therefore be the principle of protection from intrusion by the state, with specific exceptions being made only where it can be justified.